April 2012 DVD & Blu-rays

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Jan. 2, 2013

Best DVD & Blu-rays Released April 2012

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Using the subversive urgency of cinema verite, the lives of six young people unfold in present day Iran. Misunderstood by their families and oppressed by conservative Islamic society, they act out their personal desires behind closed doors.

Hossein Keshavarz

NR Drama

75%

  • 3
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A family uses their life savings to buy a dilapidated zoo with 200 exotic animals facing destruction.

Scarlett Johansson, Elle Fanning, Matt Damon, John Michael Higgins, Julie Yorn, Colin Ford, Angus MacFadyen, J.B. Smoove

PG Drama Comedy Family True Story

88%

  • 4.5
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Set against the sweeping backdrop of the Great War, storyline charts the extraordinary friendship between a boy and a horse who are separated but whose fates continue to intertwine over the course of WWI.

Steven Spielberg, David Thewlis, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jeremy Irvine, David Kross, Frank Marshall, Revel Guest, Richard Curtis

PG-13 Drama Adventure Adaptation Epic

63%

  • 4.3
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Documentary on a group of street musicians in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Renaud Barret, Florent de La Tullaye

PG-13 Documentary

0%

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The small working-class town of Angels Crest is a tight-knit community resting quietly in one of the vast and stunningly beautiful valleys of the Rocky Mountains. Ethan (Thomas Dekker), one of the town's residents, is a young father but not much more than a kid himself. He has no choice but to look after his three-year-old son Nate, since mom Cindy (Lynn Collins) is an alcoholic. But one snowy day, Ethan's good intentions are thwarted by a moment of thoughtlessness, resulting in tragedy. A local prosecutor (Jeremy Piven) haunted by his past goes after Ethan, and the ensuing confusion and casting of blame begins to tear the town apart.

Lynn Collins, Mira Sorvino, Julian Domingues, Gaby Dellal, Thomas Dekker, Colin A. Campbell, Rachel Clentworth, Chris Ippolito

R Drama 1 hr, 32 mins

64%

  • 4.3
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The true-life tale of investigator Harry Markopolos' meticulous, decade-long fight to reveal Madoff's widely destructive Ponzi scheme.

Jeff Prosserman, Randy Manis

Documentary

53%

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Joseph (Peter Mullan) is an unemployed widower with a drinking problem and a violent temper. When he meets Hannah (Olivia Colman), a devout Christian who works at a charity shop, the two form an unlikely bond where secrets are revealed and salvation is found in dark places.

Olivia Colman, Peter Mullan, Paddy Considine

Drama 1 hr, 31 mins

43%

  • 3.6
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Two seemingly different men (Michael Clarke Duncan, Morgan Simpson) embark on a music-steeped journey through the American South, learning along the way that life isn't about where you end up - it's how you get there that matters. Somewhere along the 900 miles between Austin, TX and Huntsville, AL the two men become unlikely friends.

Michael Clarke Duncan, Luke Perry, Mario Van Peebles, Morgan Simpson, George Richards, Kiele Sanchez, Taryn Manning, Tom Skerritt

Drama

78%

  • 4.6
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A former cop is a luckless veteran of the speed-dating scene in Turin, but much to his surprise, he meets a chambermaid at a high-end hotel and the two hit it off. After they leave the city for a romantic getaway in the country, things suddenly take a dark turn. As Sonia's murky past resurfaces, her reality starts to crumble.

Giuseppe Capotondi

Thriller Mystery 1 hr, 35 mins

38%

  • 4
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Kevin Clash, the man behind Elmo of Sesame Street, as he chases and ultimately achieves his childhood dream of working with master puppeteer Jim Henson.

Whoopi Goldberg, Constance Marks, Philip Shane

PG Documentary 1 hr, 20 mins

89%

  • 4.2
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An absentee father returns home to a small town in East Texas and discovers a household of crystal meth addicts.

Anson Mount, David Pomes, Xander Berkeley, Ryan Donowho

Drama

71%

  • 3.7
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"The Darkest Hour" is a "28 Days"-like thriller about a group of kids struggling to survive in Russia after an alien invasion.

Emile Hirsch, Chris Gorak, Tom Jacobson, Timur Bekmambetov, Monnie Wills, Jon Spaihts, Les Bohem, M.T. Ahern

PG-13 Action Thriller Suspense Horror Sci-Fi 3D Shot-In-3D

73%

  • 3.7
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Chucho has always played the Devil in his town's Nativity Play, but the new pastor gives the role to someone else and the two men engage in a battle between good and evil.

Emilio Portes

R Comedy

42%

  • 3
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A romantic comedy musical which takes a peek-a-boo into dysfunctional romantic relationships that eventually lead to breakups.

Ashwini Chaudhary, Bipasha Basu

Comedy Romance Musical

50%

  • 3
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A boy who kidnaps a girl but starts to fall in love with her.

Mandeep Kumar

Comedy Romance

71%

  • 4.2
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A loner highway patrolman is inspired to search for his long-lost parents after meeting a sexy librarian.

Rachel Nichols, Margaret Whitton, Jackson Hurst, Anjanette Comer, Linda Emond

PG-13 Drama Romance

38%

  • 4.3
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A biographical film of legendary actress Charlotte Rampling, told through her own conversations with artist friends and collaborators, including Peter Lindbergh, Paul Auster, and Juergen Teller.

Angelina Maccarone

NR Biography Documentary 1 hr, 38 mins

60%

  • 2
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The volatile right-leaning Sarkozy’s startling rise to become President of France and the emotional and psychological stakes involving the conquest of power.

Xavier Durringer

Drama Biography 1 hr, 45 mins

100%

  • 4
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An examination of a horrible crime through intimate conversations with those involved, including 28-year-old death row inmate Michael Perry, scheduled to die eight days after his interview.

Werner Herzog

PG-13 Documentary 1 hr, 47 mins

71%

  • 3.7
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Story will focus on British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the 17 days before the Falklands War in 1982.

Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Damian Jones, Michael Hirst, Phyllida Lloyd, Abi Morgan, Anthony Head, Richard E. Grant

PG-13 Drama Biography 1 hr, 45 mins

68%

  • 4
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The return of Ethan Hunt. Plot details are being kept under a lid of secrecy. Said to be a globe-trotting adventure, as production is scheduled to take place in Prague, Dubai and Vancouver.

Tom Cruise, Andre Nemec, Ving Rhames, Brad Bird, J.J. Abrams, Paula Wagner, Josh Applebaum, Simon Pegg

PG-13 Action Adventure Sequel IMAX

82%

  • 4.6
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This film documents orphaned orangutans and elephants and the extraordinary people who rescue and raise them--saving endangered species one life at a time.

Morgan Freeman, Drew Fellman, David Lickley

G Documentary 3D Shot-In-3D

88%

  • 4.1
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Michael Fassbender will play Brandon, a 30-something man living in New York, who is unable to manage his sex life.

Steve McQueen, Ian Canning, Emile Sherman, Abi Morgan, Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale, Nicole Beharie

NC-17 Drama Comedy

81%

  • 4
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A thriller that combines elements of’Assault on Precinct 13 with Lord of the Flies in a story of survival.

Karl Mueller, Xavier Gens, Ross Dinerstein, Darryn Welch, Tony Krantz, Eron Sheean, Lauren German, Milo Ventimiglia

R Action

77%

  • 3.8
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Paul Goodman was once so ubiquitous in the American zeitgeist that he merited a cameo in Woody Allen's Annie Hall. Author of legendary bestseller Growing Up Absurd, Goodman was also a poet, 1940s out queer and family man, pacifist, visionary, co-founder of Gestalt therapy—and a moral compass for many in the burgeoning counterculture of the '60s.

Jonathan Lee

Drama Biography Documentary

33%

  • 5
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A documentary about a Spanish double agent during World War II.

Edmon Roch

Documentary

50%

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Exploration into the life of America's controversial former CIA Director William Colby told through the eyes of his wife and filmmaker son, Carl.

Grace Guggenheim

Historical Documentary 1 hr, 44 mins

46%

  • 3.8
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The plot centers on a security guard and former alcohol smuggler on the Iceland-Netherlands route who is tempted back into illicit business by a dubious friend after encountering financial problems.

Kate Beckinsale, Stephen Levinson, Caleb Landry Jones, Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, Tim Bevan, Giovanni Ribisi, Lukas Haas

R Action Thriller Suspense Crime Remake 1 hr, 50 mins

92%

  • 4
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On 11:11 on the 11th day of the 11th month, the 11th gate of Heaven will open up and something from another world will enter the earthly realm for 49 minutes.

Darren Lynn Bousman, Michael Landes, Wayne Rice, Richard Heller, Timothy Gibbs, Denis Rafter, Wendy Glenn, Brendan Price

PG-13 Thriller Suspense Horror

70%

  • 3.6
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The last two staffers of a haunted hotel prepare to go out of business.

Ti West, Peter Phok, Derek Curl, Larry Fessenden, Sara Paxton, Pat Healy

R Thriller Horror 1 hr, 41 mins

76%

  • 3.4
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A film that asks why the good times slip by so fast while the difficult times seem so sticky. It explores ideas of abundance, emptiness, human connection and abandonment while observing an interweaving web of awkward characters who maintain hope by inventing their own forms of communication and self-fulfillment.

Matt McCormick

Drama

75%

  • 3
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Documentary on the legal battle to free Debbie Peagler, a woman imprisoned for over a quarter century due to her connection to the murder of the man who abused her. She finds her only hope for freedom when two rookie attorneys with no background in criminal law step forward to take her case.

Yoav Potash

Crime Documentary 1 hr, 35 mins

34%

  • 4.3
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A female diving instructor returns to the deep after a near-fatal incident with a Great White shark.

Halle Berry, Wyck Godfrey, Marty Bowen, Clark Johnson, Martin Shore, Christopher Tuffin, Celine Rattray, Amy Sorlie

PG-13 Action Thriller 1 hr, 34 mins

81%

  • 4.2
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In 1920s China, a notorious bandit chief Zhang descends upon a remote provincial town posing as its new mayor.

Jiang Wen

Action Comedy Western

64%

  • 3.1
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An examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.

Ali Suliman, Elia Suleiman, Saleh Bakri

Drama 1 hr, 49 mins

50%

  • 3
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The story of Emelia Conan-Doyle (Jessica Brown Findlay), a cheeky force of nature and the 17 year old heir to the legacy of Arthur Conan Doyle. Harboring an ambition to follow in the literary footsteps of her grandfather, Emelia writes while working at a stuffy seaside hotel populated by another blocked novelist Jonathan (Sebastian Koch), his put-upon wife (Julia Ormond) and their daughter Beth (Felicity Jones). Befriending Beth, Emelia begins to inch her way into their family life before casually seducing the sexually-frustrated Jonathan, forcing all involved to confront some uncomfortable truths about their situation.

Felicity Jones, Jessica Brown Findlay, Sebastian Koch, Julia Ormond

Comedy Romance

48%

  • 2.9
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A Brooklyn teenager juggles conflicting identities and risks friendship, heartbreak, and family in a desperate search for sexual expression.

Dee Rees

Drama

75%

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In the lost holy land of Milos, the Elrics search for the truth behind an unknown form of alchemy.

Kazuya Murata

Action Sci-Fi Animation

87%

  • 4.4
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Germany 1772 – the young and tumultuous Johann Goethe (Alexander Fehling) aspires to be a poet; but after failing his law exams, he is sent by his father (Henry Huebchen) to a sleepy provincial court to mend his ways. Unsure of his talent and eager to prove himself, Goethe soon wins the praise and friendship of his superior Kestner (Moritz Bleibtreu). But then Lotte (Miriam Stein) enters his life and nothing is the same as before. However, the young lovers are unaware that her father has already promised Lotte’s hand to another man.

Philipp Stölzl

Romance 1 hr, 42 mins

92%

  • 5
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Follows two evangelists from Texas who visit Scotland to spread the gospel. They encounter a local man practicing ancient magic with sinister motives.

Christopher Lee, Robin Hardy, Peter Watson-Wood, Peter Snell, Brittania Nicol, Henry Garrett, Graham McTavish

R Sequel Horror

49%

  • 3.4
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An uptight lawyer, Lenny Rubins, (Timothy Spall), has to put his dream retirement on hold when his ailing mother (Honor Blackman) emotionally blackmails him into reuniting his estranged children for a holiday gathering. They may be peas from the same pod, but in Lenny's eyes, his grown-up children are certainly not even from the same planet: a ruthless control-freak and hard-nosed capitalist (James Callis), an outspoken, argumentative eco-warrior committed to the cause (Rhona Mitra), an outer-worldly Buddhist Monk; and to cap it all, a bible bashing born-again Rabbi! While they might quarrel, fight, and perhaps even be starting a war in Africa, they are still family.

Rhona Mitra, Blake Harrison, Yoav Factor, Timothy Spall, James Callis, Loo Brealey

PG Comedy Family 1 hr, 37 mins

67%

  • 1.8
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A young woman struggles to readjust to her family and small town after returning from war.

Michael Shannon, Tim Blake Nelson, Liza Johnson, Noah Harlan, Linda Cardellini, John Slattery, Paul Sparks, Talia Balsam

Drama 1 hr, 37 mins

68%

  • 4
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A down-and-out law student sues Satan for $8 trillion dollars. Satan appears to defend himself and the trial of the century takes place.

Tom Sizemore, Jeff Gannon, Timothy A. Chey, Malcolm McDowell, Shannen Fields, Corbin Bernsen, Bart Bronson, Rebecca St. James

Drama Comedy Thriller

55%

  • 2.3
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Top April 2012 Movie Trailers

The Wicker Tree Theatrical Trailer
The Innkeepers Theatrical Trailer
Albatross Theatrical Trailer
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